How do you guys know this stuff? Awesome. Bill
On Jan 22, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > Mark, > > Perfect. That's it! > > Coincidentally I also found it in the notes section for Open File by > rod...@oceanbrowser.com: >> If you are reading in a text file (for example) which contains high ascii >> values (such as curly quotes - numToChar(210) ) you will find that these are >> displayed as garbage in the variable watcher, or if you set directly to the >> field contents. >> >> The solution is to encode and decode the content: >> >> #tData contains your data read in from file >> put uniDecode(uniEncode(tData, "UTF8")) into tData >> >> (All credit to Dave Cragg and Devin Assay for this tip) _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
